Ranchi, Dec 7 (IANS) A man was on the run in Jharkhand after burning his wife and two of her sisters to death in Dhanbad city early Tuesday, police said.

Reena, 22, Usha, 27, and Reema, 24, were asleep in a room Monday night when Sonu Kumar, Usha’s husband, locked them from outside and set the room on fire. All three sisters died, a police official said.

Shiva Shankar Prasad, father of the three women, alleged that Kumar killed the sisters because he wanted to marry Reena but the family was against it.